Foremost Machine Builders, Inc.

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Foremost Machine Builders, Inc.

One Source Does It All

ONE SOURCE DOES IT ALL

Single source solutions to your processing needs have been our specialty for 50 years. We provide fully integrated equipment and systems. Our engineers will visit your facility to establish a thorough understanding of your requirements, then develop the equipment or system solution that best fits your needs. Our factory trained installers and service technicians are ready to assist you in completing your project on time.
Our comprehensive line of equipment includes grinders, blenders, loaders, dryers, chillers, weighers, metal separators, feeders and blowers. All are available in a full range of sizes on an individual basis or integrated into a plant wide processing system.
Customized PLC based plant control systems are engineered from local machine controls to a supervisory computer system using the latest commercially available hardware and software. Foremost’s dedication to quality, integrity and service is constant, and we thank our valued customers for fifty years of prosperous relationships.

Company Profile

For over 50 years, we at Foremost Machine Builders, Inc. engineer, build, install and service a comprehensive line of products and systems for bulk material processing. These include in-plant distribution, blending, drying, automated trim and scrap recycling and fully integrated plant control systems.

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Foremost Machine Builders, Inc.

Upright Duplex volumetric blenders blend up to 6000 lb/hr of virgin resin, regrind, colorants and additives in pellet, powder or flake form. Units include holding bins, metering augers or vibrators, and cascading chute or mixer. Mini- and machine-mounted blenders for the same range of materials as the Duplex series are designed of direct mounting on machine throat. Continuous mixers are optional.

Gravimetric blenders include LWB and BWB series for either loss-in-weight or batch-weight blending. CLWB series is a continuous loss-in-weight blender. Accutrac series is an economical alternative to gain-in-weight blending. Floor or on-machine mounting.

Microprocessor controls provide accuracy to ± 0.05% by weight. Continuous inventory monitoring of all ingredient throughputs is standard. Feed and control options include plantwide data acquisition and material-usage control with central microcomputer.

Customized systems include options such as liquid feed by weight. Also pellet and powder volumetric and gravimetric feeders for mixing and feeding additives.

Upright Duplex volumetric blenders blend up to 6000 lb/hr of virgin resin, regrind, colorants and additives in pellet, powder or flake form. Units include holding bins, metering augers or vibrators, and cascading chute or mixer. Mini- and machine-mounted blenders for the same range of materials as the Duplex series are designed of direct mounting on machine throat. Continuous mixers are optional.

Gravimetric blenders include LWB and BWB series for either loss-in-weight or batch-weight blending. CLWB series is a continuous loss-in-weight blender. Accutrac series is an economical alternative to gain-in-weight blending. Floor or on-machine mounting.

Microprocessor controls provide accuracy to ± 0.05% by weight. Continuous inventory monitoring of all ingredient throughputs is standard. Feed and control options include plantwide data acquisition and material-usage control with central microcomputer.

Customized systems include options such as liquid feed by weight. Also pellet and powder volumetric and gravimetric feeders for mixing and feeding additives.

HD series grinders range from 10 x 14 in. to 24 x 36 in. throat size and 7.5 to 100 hp. Throughputs from 200 to 2000 lb/hr. Series is designed for beside-the-press applications, central grinding or recycling applications and optionally available in sound attenuated and skewed rotor design.

Full line of high-shear film grinders from 6 x 8 in. to 16 x 48 in. throat size and 3 to 80 hp. Throughputs from 50 to 300 lb/hr. Designed for film, edge trim reclaim, roller feed applications or any application where scissor-type cutting action is required.

High-volume line of granulators from 24 36 in. to 30 x 45 in. throat size. Throughputs from 1200 to 3000 lb/hr. Series designed for high throughputs of large blow molded parts.

Special-purpose granulators include DSC-18 dual-stage grinder designed for grinding large purging, PG-2415 for large diam. pipe, and SW-0936 for grinding sheet and web up to 36 in. wide. Hot-melt grinders for processing hot thermoplastic from the extruder die without pre-cooling. Customization is an option.

Standard features for all units include a five-year motor warranty. Options include offset or center-feed cutting chamber designs. Full line of accessories and systems encompasses solutions in parts and trim pickup and conveying, metal separation, fines separation, and post-consumer recycling.

Upright Duplex volumetric blenders blend up to 6000 lb/hr of virgin resin, regrind, colorants and additives in pellet, powder or flake form. Units include holding bins, metering augers or vibrators, and cascading chute or mixer. Mini- and machine-mounted blenders for the same range of materials as the Duplex series are designed of direct mounting on machine throat. Continuous mixers are optional.

Gravimetric blenders include LWB and BWB series for either loss-in-weight or batch-weight blending. CLWB series is a continuous loss-in-weight blender. Accutrac series is an economical alternative to gain-in-weight blending. Floor or on-machine mounting.

Microprocessor controls provide accuracy to ± 0.05% by weight. Continuous inventory monitoring of all ingredient throughputs is standard. Feed and control options include plantwide data acquisition and material-usage control with central microcomputer.

Customized systems include options such as liquid feed by weight. Also pellet and powder volumetric and gravimetric feeders for mixing and feeding additives.

HD series grinders range from 10 x 14 in. to 24 x 36 in. throat size and 7.5 to 100 hp. Throughputs from 200 to 2000 lb/hr. Series is designed for beside-the-press applications, central grinding or recycling applications and optionally available in sound attenuated and skewed rotor design.

Full line of high-shear film grinders from 6 x 8 in. to 16 x 48 in. throat size and 3 to 80 hp. Throughputs from 50 to 300 lb/hr. Designed for film, edge trim reclaim, roller feed applications or any application where scissor-type cutting action is required.

High-volume line of granulators from 24 36 in. to 30 x 45 in. throat size. Throughputs from 1200 to 3000 lb/hr. Series designed for high throughputs of large blow molded parts.

Special-purpose granulators include DSC-18 dual-stage grinder designed for grinding large purging, PG-2415 for large diam. pipe, and SW-0936 for grinding sheet and web up to 36 in. wide. Hot-melt grinders for processing hot thermoplastic from the extruder die without pre-cooling. Customization is an option.

Standard features for all units include a five-year motor warranty. Options include offset or center-feed cutting chamber designs. Full line of accessories and systems encompasses solutions in parts and trim pickup and conveying, metal separation, fines separation, and post-consumer recycling.

At least 16 companies introduced new dryers at the big show in Chicago. The new models span a range of drying technologies, but most sport features that save space and cost and make the dryers simpler and more reliable.

NPE 2006 held no revolutionary changes in dryers, blenders, feeders, loaders, or conveying controls, but widely adopted improvements make the newest models easier to use and maintain—and easier on the budget, too.

Processors today face bewildering choices of at least five basic types of dryers, whose capabilities are subject to conflicting claims from equipment suppliers. For the buyer, the most basic questions are: How much drying is needed for the job and which dryer types are up to the task?

The big show in Chicago presented more new loaders, feeders, blenders, and conveying controls than you could count. They’re more flexible, easier to maintain, and easier to control. Many are web-enabled, and some are lower in cost.

While most of the new granulators shown at NPE 2000 last month were beside-the-press models, there was also an accent on larger units with an appetite for tough hunks of large-diameter PVC pipe, bundles of textile fibers, and wads of molten bottle flash. Many are configured for “difficult” resins from engineering types to soft TP elastomers.